I just double-checked your website Jenny, and I looked at some of the pictures of the landscape for the last two years, including the aerial photo of your neighbor's place after the fire. I noticed irregular patches of grass right next to irregular patches of sandy dirt. There were blades of grass that were different heights. Some of the sand dunes in your recent pics were 2 feet deep, and some were 3 feet deep-- that's three whole feet of elevation! I even saw a few trees and bushes. And you have nice-looking sunsets.

What I'm talking about is this. Looks okay, right? Maybe a little square-shaped, and sure all the cornstalks are disturbingly identical (my aunt used to grow corn in her garden, and the stalks were NOT all exactly the same size). But at least it's green. And the homogeneity is not broken up by any pesky two-foot rises or trees or anything like that. Now picture it for seven hours straight. And when I say "straight" I mean the road-- DH says you can stick a club on your steering wheel, kick back, and take a nap and when you wake up you will still be on the road and in the correct lane. Unfortunately you won't know if you've made any progress since everything will look the same as it did when you went to sleep, but maybe the odometer will give some information. And if you're lucky, maybe it will rain so you can look at raindrops falling for visual variety.

Now, I'm not being fair. Most of these farms are not populated because they are run by Con Agra or some such. But a few of them have an old farmhouse on them, and sometimes that farmhouse is even inhabited rather than abandoned and used as a shed. I think we must have seen five or six between Indianapolis and Chicago when my dad and I drove that route, and two or three appeared inhabited. So the farmhouses do provide a little variety once per hour.